Research groups and projects

BIOCHAR research, Pyrolysis is one of the most effective technologies to get all wood based components, e.g. biochar and distilled liquids, for use in an energy efficient way.UEF Biochar research

Biogeochemistry research group, knowledge on CO2, CH4, N2O, NO, HONO and BVOCs dynamics in agricultural, forest and permafrost soils and aquatic ecosystems and the biogeochemical and microbial processes behind the fluxes, http://www.uef.fi/en/web/bgc/biogeochemistry

BioDemoverstas Pohjois-Savo: Demonstration environment for intelligent resource management in biorefinery: the project is developing and testing new products derived from bio-based materials, and their commercialisation

BORFOR, the effects of forest management, forest use and climate change on the carbon dynamics, structure and ecosystem services of forests, http://www.uef.fi/en/web/borfor

The Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL), international, regional and national law and policy issues in climate change, energy and environment, http://www.uef.fi/en/web/cceel

Chemical and Microbial Ecology, chemical and microbial interactions between living organisms, organic material, soil and atmosphere,

EIALAW, Environmental Impact Assesment Law in Transition, The EIALAW project develops concrete models for the re-design and implementation of environmental impact assessment legislation in Finland, and provides practical guidance and advice for various actors operating in the field, http://www.uef.fi/en/web/yva/home

FRONTIER, the frontier of sustainability transitions, cultural adaptations of sustainability policies in European peripheral regions, http://www.uef.fi/en/web/fst

Industrial Forest Biotechnology Research group, novel products, value chains and business models for bio-based industries from short rotation plants, industrial side streams and wood associated fungi, further information

Sustainability governance of BioAssemblages: A trifold perspective on bioeconomy clusters in the making, focuses on two tightly interlinked topics; 1) the development of bio-resource based economic and political processes in specific localities which can be defined as emerging local bioeconomies and; 2) the definitions of sustainability employed within these processes, http://www.uef.fi/documents/371347/1445910/Albrecht.pdf/a0937f56-733c-4fa3-8787-a1329b99c511

TOWARDSLCS, on the way towards a low-carbon society – increasing professionalism in land use and landscape management within climate change, http://www.uef.fi/en/web/towardslcs

UUTU, New products from forests, sustainable and diversified use of forests. The task of UEF (work package 3) is to develop and pilot forest planning that considers the production of natural products., https://www.luke.fi/projektit/metsan-tuotteet-paaprojekti/ (information only in Finnish)